10:45–10:50 
Welcome

Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla studied mechanical engineering and materials science in Bochum and Darmstadt. She completed her doctorate and qualified as a university lecturer at Ruhr University in Bochum.

Following research activities at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) and the Technical University of Berlin, she conducted research and taught as a university professor at the Vienna University of Technology from 2003 to 2005.

In 2005, she joined the management team at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH in Dusseldorf as Scientific Member, Director and then Managing Director. In 2008, she was appointed Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Energy in Berlin (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH), which was created under her leadership through the merger of HMI and the Berlin Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation (BESSY).

In 2017, Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla was elected President of TU Braunschweig, a post she held until the DLR Senate unanimously appointed her as the new Chair of the Executive Board in March 2020.

10:45–10:50
Welcome

Sabine Klauke is Vice President Aviation, BDLI.

She was previously Chief Technical Officer at Airbus since 1 July 2021 and a member of the Company’s Executive Committee ever since.

In this role, Sabine drives the Company’s ambition behind delivering bold and breakthrough technologies to build the future of aerospace. She leads a team of more than 13,000 employees across the globe who design, develop, certify and ensure continuing airworthiness of all Commercial Aircraft products and services.

In addition to her Airbus missions, Sabine serves as: Co-Chair of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking, VP Aviation for the German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI), Chairwoman of the supervisory board of Airbus GmbH, and she is a member of the Supervisory Board of Airbus Operations GmbH.

Previously, Sabine was Head of Engineering within Airbus Defence and Space and a member of the Division’s Executive Committee. In this capacity, she was responsible for all engineering activities within the Defence and Space division and in charge of its product and services portfolio. 

Prior to this position, she served as Head of Programmes Customer Services: a responsibility she held for the A330/A340 programmes since 2015. Sabine joined Airbus in 2002, where she has held positions of increasing responsibility within manufacturing engineering, production, product development programs, development processes and change and innovation projects within the Airbus Commercial Aircraft division.

Sabine holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden). From 1998 to 2002 Sabine worked at DELMIA, a brand of Dassault Systèmes, where she carried out the deployment of digital manufacturing software as well as consulting projects with customers in the automotive and the aerospace industries worldwide.

10:50-11:00
Impulse

Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam. He is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues and led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. Professor Rockström is a leading scientist on global water resources, with more than 25 years experience in applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. He is i.a. member of European Commission expert group: Mission Board for adaptation to climate change including societal transformation, chair of the Earth Commission, Chief Scientist of Conservation International, and elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

11:00–11:10 
Keynote

Since 2021
Member of the German Bundestag

Since 2018
Co-leader of ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS

2017 - 2018
Deputy Minister-President and Minister of Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalisation of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein

2012 - 2017
Deputy Minister-President and Minister of Energy, Agriculture, the Environment and Rural Areas of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein

2009 - 2012
Chair of the Parliamentary Group in the Land parliament of Schleswig-Holstein

2008 - 2009
Chair of the Parliamentary Group in the Schleswig-Flensburg district council

2004 - 2009
Leader of the ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS Land branch in Schleswig-Holstein

2002 - 2004
Leader of the ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS district branch in Schleswig-Flensburg

Since 2002
Member of ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS

Education and other professional activity

2000 to 2009
Worked as freelance author

2000
Awarded doctorate at Universität Hamburg

1991 to 1996
Studied in Freiburg im Breisgau (German language and literature, philosophy and philology), Roskilde/Denmark (humanities) and Hamburg (literature and philosophy), graduating with a Master’s degree

Dr Robert Habeck was born in Lübeck on 2 September 1969. He is married and has four children.

11:10–11:15
Impulse

Michael Schoellhorn has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Airbus Defence and Space since 1 July 2021 and is a member of Airbus’ Executive Committee, responsible for Airbus's defence, space, unmanned air services and connected intelligence activities. Previously, he was Airbus Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a member of the Company’s Executive Committee. In this position, he led the production, quality, procurement and information management organisations, transforming and building the production system of the future. Michael joined Airbus in February 2019 from BSH Home Appliances, where he was COO and a member of the company’s Management Board from 2015 until his departure. Michael began his career in 1984 in the German armed forces, where he served as an officer and a helicopter pilot until 1994, with assignments in Germany and the US. Michael worked in academia as a research assistant at the Helmut Schmidt University (University of the German armed forces) in Hamburg (1994-1999). He started out his career with Bosch in 1999 and held various senior management positions in the automotive sector in the US, the Czech Republic and Germany before being appointed EVP for Manufacturing and Quality in 2012. Michael is a member of the presidency of BDLI (the German aerospace industries association), chairman of the Supervisory Board of Airbus Germany (Airbus Operations GmbH), Managing Director of Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, member of the Board of Directors of Airbus Defence and Space Inc US and member of the Board of Directors of Stratasys. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Control Engineering, both from the Helmut Schmidt University.